Mehmet Ozturk

Mehmet Ozturk (1994-19 March 2016) was an Islamic State suicide bomber who carried out the March 2016 Istanbul bombing.

Biography
Mehmet Ozturk was born in 1994 in Gaziantep Province, Turkey. He joined the Islamic State in Turkey and was set to execute the March 2016 Istanbul bombing. He drove a car into the busy Istiklal Avenue in the Beyoglu district on the European side of Istanbul and planned to kill several tourists in a large explosion. However, he was frightened at the sight of police and detonated his bomb in front of a restaurant instead, killing 4 people and wounding 36.